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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1962
Page
5
Mrs Lola White visits Mt Pleasant while several families from Sherman Dallas and Oklahoma travel to share weekends. The Bloomer Girls face Colored Girls at the ball park tonight. A Legion meeting with watermelon planned. Whitewright welcomes new Cook Shoe Shop and a town birthday celebration.
Mrs. John E. Smith returned home from a McKinney hospital where she was a surgical patient. The Grayson County Rural Letter Carriers Association will meet Saturday at 7 30 p m with Senator elect Ralph Hall of Rockwall as speaker. Firemen extinguished a fire at Farley and Hardcastle grocery, damaging nearby merchandise. Arthur J. Lacy of Madill Oklahoma visited Whitewright friends. his family once ran Cameron and Lacy in the early 1900s.
The Transit Authority reports average bus speed rose from 11.6 to 11.7 mph last year. The Chicago Sun-Times notes 1906 horse cars on State Street averaged 12 mph, highlighting a speed gap between transit modes.
Edith Holmes of Trenton and G C Hodge of Bonham wed last Thursday at the Trenton Baptist Church with Rev LeRoy Martin officiating. The couple will live at 803 East 13th Street Bonham. Mrs Hodge edits the Trenton Tribune and her son Tom Mc Holmes is the paper’s publisher. Mr Hodge runs the Bradford-Watson Co insurance firm in Bonham.
Rotary Club meeting last Friday featured guest speaker Charlie Spence agronomist from Sherman who spoke on the value of fertilizer in growing crops on black land. Next Friday marks the annual farmer's day with members inviting a farmer guest for luncheon and field inspection of maize results at the N. E. Skaggs farm conducted by Spence. Jack Meador will be program chairman.
London transit ads apologize for a driver and conductor who loaded passengers onto a bus then drove off in another as a practical joke. A separate quip about a patient with split personality ends with a punch line about both sides paying the doctor.
The piece explains the American principle of government of law over government by men. It recalls the Declaration of Independence criticisms of King George III, then notes the Constitution’s checks and balances and the guarantee of unalienable rights. It concludes with the ratification of the Bill of Rights and ongoing judicial protection of rights.
Dock operator Johnny Mathews, in Port Aransas, beat a 55 pound sailfish to death with a board after the fish refused the bait. The incident occurred on Thursday as Mathews attempted to land the catch.
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